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Achmed
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Foodie-in-chief & Imagination engineer
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FREELANCE TIP

If the client is a company, in addition to charging a commercial price, always add +15% for negotiation.

They will profit directly and indirectly from your art.

If they want to negotiate a price, work on that 15%.

Most of the time they need you more than you need them.
November 1, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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My brother, a 25 year Google employee, was the first person to warn me never to use Google Home or any of their other hardware unless I want the entire internet to have easy access to my life. They're fucking sieves.
June 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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@NBCNews: Social media has been buzzing with examples of Google’s new, “experimental” AI tool going awry.

A Google spokesperson said the company believes users are deliberately attempting to trip up the technology with uncommon questions. https://t.co/Wj9iuKzzHk
May 24, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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They did, it's just not terribly well known. You have to add &udm=14 to the end of your search URL. Or just do your searches from here:
udm14.com
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
udm14.com
May 25, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Author copies of the US edition of Service Model have arrived.
May 29, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Yesterday on Counting Stuff, eventually data people wind up running projects, except project management at work is a weird beast that needs lots of non-execution work. This is the framework in my head I use to understand it

www.counting-stuff.com/basics-of-pr...
The basics of project management for data folk
It's impossible to explain project management in a single post, but the general framework for understanding why work projects feel so objectively different from school ones is helpful to make sense of...
www.counting-stuff.com
May 29, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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“Nearly half — 47 percent — of the executives surveyed said they believed “most” or “all” of the chief executive role should be completely automated or replaced by A.I. Even executives believe executives are superfluous in the late digital age.”

Now do university administrators.
If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.
Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2024 at 8:05 PM